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Under the Streets of London

Boris Johnson calls for leaving 'no stone . . . unfracked.'

London Mayor Boris Johnson lamented last month that "we have no gold or oil under the streets of London, and much to my disappointment there is no shale gas to frack."

Except there might be, according to the latest report from the U.S. Energy Information Agency, which now estimates that the counties of Surrey and Sussex alone hold roughly 700 million barrels of recoverable oil. The reserves sitting under the...